I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
issue
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As at Dalat in April, the Fontainebleau conference failed entirely on substantive issues .
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Some view unconstrained election spending as positive, exposing voters to more debate about substantive issues .
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Candidates also are resorting to personal attacks to get attention because their positions on most substantive issues are remarkably similar.
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Reporters are often reluctant to examine substantive issues .
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I was not prepared to agree that Britain could be outvoted on any substantive issue of foreign policy.
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But, as Robert Frank has convincingly argued, there was also a substantive issue .
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Disenfranchisement in the first sense relates to the virtual exclusion of certain substantive issues from the ordinary political agenda.
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Reporters are often reluctant to examine substantive political issues.
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The new regulations are both symbolic and substantive .
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And when he grew up, his tastes were the same-the only substantive difference being that his adventurers were now daring adults.
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Businesses are held accountable in a substantive way for what they do with resources.
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Candidates also are resorting to personal attacks to get attention because their positions on most substantive issues are remarkably similar.
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If we look to laws external to the family we can begin to develop a body of substantive analyses guided by theory.
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One rationale emphasises the connection between procedural due process and the substantive justice of the final outcome.
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The conventions have become nothing but cheerleading rallies for the presidential campaign ahead, their substantive political role all but eliminated.
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Yet a shift from Gingrich to Lott would be unlikely to have much substantive difference.
II. noun
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Internal incidence is characteristic of all substantives.
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The child in due course in new contexts uses the modifier with substantives, thereby expressing his desires more clearly.